I'd like to give an honorable mention to the original author of this Chapter SafyreSky and her characters the Frosts. I've left a link to her profile and I highly recommend that you check out her Story Meet the Frosts which this chapter is borrowed from.
Just to let everyone know I have permission to use this and also I have made changes to make this chapter Fite in my story.
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"Why, Mother Nature, what a pleasant surprise!" A voice said. Turning to the side, Mother Nature watched as Blaise Frost walked through the rose bushes, joining her on the pathway. Grabbing her hand, he kissed it.
"You look quite ravishing today," he began, "To what do we owe this wonderful visit?"
"Well Blaise, you are as charming as ever. And can't I simply pop on by to give my lovely winter sprite and her family a visit?"
He laughed, his crimson eyes twinkling, his fiery hair burning. "You always have a reason, Mother Nature. Here, allow me to escort you inside." Offering his arm, Mother Nature graciously took it, placing her hand in the crook of his elbow. Blaise had always been quite the charming fellow. His features were remarkably similar to Jack's, but much warmer as well as more ancient; filled with wisdom beyond the years of many people. It was a face weathered with time and war.
Sighing, she allowed Blaise to lead them up the winding walkway, admiring the roses. I may as well prepare myself, she thought, stopping Blaise on the stone steps of the veranda.
"How is Winter doing?"
Blaise's winning smile faltered, sadness evident in his eyes. "She's holding up. Fino and Fiera have kept her quite occupied as of late. As it turns out, Fino has prominent warlock blood, and decided to make friends with the local strays."
"Stray what?"
"You name it, he's let it in."
Mother Nature smiled. "And his sister?"
"Rambunctious, as always. She's constantly picking on him; the two of them are always poking fun."
"And how about Jacqueline?"
"She's matured her powers to no end. I think she's almost achieved a Legendary ranking."
"I'll be the judge of that." The immortals that had special powers, like the Frost family, were ranked in their mastery of the craft. Jacqueline was currently Grand-Master, second highest rank. Her siblings were Distinguished, the second rank.
Blaise laughed. "Of course, my dear. You are Mother Nature, after all. We are your humble servants," he teased, winking and bowing with much splendor.
Mother Nature rolled her dark eyes, smiling.
"That being said, I think it's best to warn you that it might be a little crazy inside. We've had a recent bout of territorial disputes out here."
"That explains the scorch marks and snow piles."
"No matter what The twins and I do, we just can't melt them. Jacqueline is something else."
Mother Nature laughed. A smile on her lips, though she looked at the pyrokinetic sprite with slight seriousness. "Jacqueline isn't following in her brother's footsteps, is she?"
Blaise looked at her, his royal lineage shinning through his cool facade. "If anything, she's a troublemaker, but she couldn't be more opposite to him."
A sigh of relief.
And then, tinkling laughter, sounding like bells, surrounded them. "Very amusing, as well. If only I knew where she learned half the things she's been showing us."
In a flurry of snowflakes, Winter appeared beside Blaise. Porcelain pale skin, almost blue, contrasted her inky black locks, pulled up into a loose bun. Her red lips smiling, she ran forwards to Mother Nature, her embrace cooling down the dark woman.
"Oh, Mother! It's wonderful to see you!"
"You as well, Winter darling." She gave the younger sprite a squeeze before letting go.
"I thought I heard you out here. What a wonderful surprise! You have no idea how crazy it's been the past decade."
"Blaise has told me, my dear."
She laughed, playfully swatting her ablaze husband, her cool touch temporarily turning the spot on his molten coloured suit blue.
"Well, let's not dally on the porch, come in, Mother! I just put on a pot of hot chocolate."
Mother Nature once again sat with her skirts pooling about her, in the comfortable parlour Winter used for entertaining. Her headdress off and placed to the side, Winter sat across from her, entertaining her with stories of the children. As usual, Father Time had been right. Winter was feeling quite chatty-a half hour had already elapsed.
"Oh, Fino is quite crafty. Poor Fiera, startled quite frequently by his little pets. You can't imagine how many racoons I've had to shoo outside."
"Fino can talk to animals then? Blaise had told me outside."
An enthusiastic nod, Winter leaned forward on the blue couch. "It shocked me at first, I won't lie. He sat in the kitchen, a fly buzzing around. He was flicking flames at it, when it buzzed angrily...and he buzzed back!"
"And from flies he went to Racoons?"
"Oh, yes. Racoons, squirrels, birds, insects, a turtle the other day when Jacqueline walked him to his friends' house. She was pretty shocked."
"Came home a little disturbed, it was hilarious," Blaise said, entering the room. Kissing Winter on the cheek, he sat down beside her, arm around her shoulders.
"Now then, love, I think it's time we let Mother Nature tell us the real reason she came today."
Sighing, Mother Nature looked at Winter's crestfallen face.
"Blaise, you always know when something is amiss. I don't understand why you didn't just become King all those years ago."
"Well, Mother Nature, I'm happy here. You are quite the exceptional queen, if I do say so myself."
"Well, I'm flattered. Winter, I am sorry, but your husband is right. I had been planning to come see you, but you see...problems arose within the council meeting earlier."
Despondent, Winter put her cup down, falling back onto Blaise's warm shoulder, her face saddened. She knew what was next. It always started like this.
"What has he done now?" She sighed.
Her glass joining Winter's, Mother Nature turned to the couple. "While a legendary figure was visiting a small town he saw a girl almost freeze another girls arm right off." Winter's face made a look almost like she didn't know what this had to do with jack. Blaise sighed,"And, that's not all, I'm afraid." "We brought this up at the meeting and Jack admitted that... the fathered a child, a part mortal.
"Excuse me?" Winter said.
Shaking his head, Blaise looked at his wife. "We have a grandchild,"
"I should have know something like this would happen." Winter frowned her head creasing.
"It's not your fault, explains Jacqueline's strange behaviour."
Mother Nature raised an eyebrow.
"She's been jumpy lately, and tried to tell me several times that she felt as if someone was using great power." Winter explained.
"And, If I recall, love, she also mentioned feelings that weren't hers."
"Well, Jacqueline is his Legate. They do have a connection. so it makes sense she would feel his daughter " Mother Nature shook her head. "I need to control this" she began, "And I was going to ask-"
"MOMMMMMMMYYYYY!" Mother Nature was cut off mid sentence, as two flaming blurs ran in the room.
"Mommy, she did it again-" A little girl, dressed in a pink and orange dress, the ruffles on fire, started.
"-She went in our territory-" The boy beside her, his hair burning tall, a band aid on one knee, his overalls half undone continued.
"-There's a huge snow fort-" The young girl continued, her short hair flattened on her head, burning down her back, a pink floral clip askew.
"-No, it's like a castle!"
"And it's sitting under OUR tree."
The twins continued to badger Winter, as Mother Nature sat. The twins knew next to nothing about their older brother, and as far as she was concerned after the hurt his betrayal had caused Winter, Blaise and Jacqueline, it was better he remain unknown. Blaise stood up.
"Fino. Fiera. That is enough."
Instantly, the twins quieted down, their identical tanned faces looking at their father.
"If you haven't noticed, we have company at the moment. Very important company." He gestured to Mother Nature, who had stood up, emitting all her importance, headdress back on her head.
The twins turned, gasped, and Fiera curtsied, her brother following suite with a bow. "Hello Grandma Nature," they said in union, using the name they had come up with decades before for the dotting legendary figure.
"Hello, kids." With her cheery greeting ringing in their ears, they grinned, ran and hugged her.
"My, the two of you are warm!" She said.
"Oh yes, Grandma Nature. We've been practising our powers very much lately," Fiera stated.
"I can talk to animals! I think we can almost maybe be Respected level now!" Fino said.
"Well that's good news." Mother Nature pondered thoughtfully, a new idea taking shape in her head.
Suddenly, the room grew colder, and a flurry of snowflakes last member of the Frost family appeared before them. Her snowy eyes danced, pale skin blending in with her long, frozen curled hair, hiding her slightly pointed ears.
"In my defense, mom, they took my tree for their little 'flame monsters' yesterday. My fortress is in a perfect spot!"
"Jacqueline, sweetheart, we have a guest..." Winter said, gently insinuating that now was not the time to discuss territory.
She looked in the direction Winter pointed to, her face transitioning from surprise to fear to a fixed smile all at once.
"Mother Nature, what a surprise," She said, curtseying. Unlike her younger siblings, Jacqueline was neatly put together. Her icy formal dress clung to her, sleeves poofed up just past her shoulders, then tightening and draping down into a lovely wide, long sleeve. Like her, the dress was frozen-the same dark shade as her older brother's icy suit.
"Jacqueline, a pleasure, as always." Mother Nature smiled at the teenaged looking sprite. Though she was much like her brother, there was underlying warmth in her eyes, a faint rosy blush on her face. She wasn't born frozen, nor had she chosen to freeze herself like her mother had, all those centuries ago.
"Kids, we do love your company, but as you can see, we are quite preoccupied right now-" "In Fino whined, as they rushed out of the room.
"So what did Jack do now? Something pretty bad, to make you come here" the sprite said, impish grin on her face.
"Jacqueline,your brother has a daughter, those were her feelings you were feeling" Winter told.
"We're sorry we didn't listen to you
"Normally I'd say I told you so-" she began, stopping dead at her mother's face. "Right, so what is he doing about it?" she asked Mother Nature.
"Your brother claims that she has her powers under control and is too busy to help." Mother explained.
"Jack a father, is hard to picture."Jacqueline smiled a little.
"Mother if you ever need help with the girl we would be more than happy to help." Winter told Mother Nature.
`Before you leave Mother would you show us her.`` Blaise asked a certain tone in his face as the pointed to the globe in the corner of the room.
``Òf course.`` Mother smiled as she and the rest walked over the globe. `Teegan Frost.
The picture in the globe slowly circled showing two girls listening to loud music the icy blond was studying herself in the mirror while her friend looked through the CD`s.
"So when are Spencer and Taylor getting home?" The dark haired girl asked.
"Personally I don't give a damn for all I care they could have..." Teegan began only for her friend to stop her.
"Teegan there like your parents." Her friend told her seriously.
"There no parents to me my real if you can call them parents... well mom's happy with her kids and John and my dad... well apparently he's no one to know, besides the only reason Spencer hasn't thrown my ass into the street is for me to babysit their kids." Teegan shook her head her hand turning blue adding a thin ice handprint.
"That's so not the only reason Teeg."
"oh right Clair the big monthly check helps." Teegan shook her head a look of disgust on her face making the room colder also making her friend shiver.
"Teegan I've never asked how you could make a room colder with just one look, or how you can make a surface frosted or even how you froze Haley Prestons hand, so you don't need to get mad at me because I'm the friend you got." The other girl the friend said letting the truth about Teegan out.
Teegan looked at her friend for a brief moment then looked at herself in the mirror resting her head against her arms. A sorrow look on her face. "Sometimes I wish I never existed."